This picture shows the crowd at Huntington. United States Senator James H. Slater, who was a passenger on the first through train to make the trip from Portland, was the Principal speaker at the celebration.
The Pillars of Hercules stand close to the railroad and always incite the admiration and wonder of those who pass by. On the top of one of these basaltic needles grows an ancient fir tree about 40 feet high and which is said to be over one hundred years old.
Transportation problems in New York are peculiar because of conformation of area on which the city is built. An interesting street that starts near the Battery is Water Street, which follows the water front on the East Side with numerous jogs, passes under Brooklyn and goes on up the East Side. The famous old Jerry McAuley mission is on Water Street under Brooklyn Bridge. Broadway, one of the world's famous streets, starts from Bowling Green and runs northward at somewhat of an angle through the entire length of Manhattan Island, on through Yonkers and continued as an unbroken highway to Albany, the state capital. Bowling Green has been famous in history and is still one of the best known places in the city. It was here that Washington reviewed the Federal procession to commemorate the ratification by New York State of the Federal Constitution in 1787. It is from this point that many present day parades start. No. 1 Broadway is occupied by the Washington Building, built by Cyrus W. Field, whose name is connected with the Atlantic Cable. This building was once the tallest in the city. Robert Fulton died in a house just back of this building. The Bowling Green Building at No. 9 is now owned by the Goulds. Daniel Webster's home was for a time in Nos. 17 and 19 Broadway. At Nos. 21 and 27 stood the hotel where Jenny Lind stopped, now occupied by the Cunard Building. At No. 52 Broadway, below Wall Street, stood, until recently, the first successful skyscraper, built in New York City in 1884. It was only eight stories high but it demonstrated the feasibility of skeleton steel construction and made the present New York City possible. The Adams Building, Nos. 56 and 61 Broadway, contains many beautiful offices. In No. 61 Broadway are the headquarters of the Rockefeller Foundation, which controls millions of dollars, and which is doing much along the lines of health education in this country and abroad.
This cliff of massive magnitude is called Oneonta Bluffs. The Union Pacific railroad clings closely to the base of this almost perpendicular precipice.
